Story Behind The Song
This is a personal observation of friends of mine. She married a Frenchman for love, he married for love and apparently too, a greencard. They worked in NYC, had a beautiful little girl, moved to Florida for a career opportunity for the husband. He eventually met another woman and left his wife to start a new family. Very sad. The husband was very selfish and hurtful to both the wife and daughter.
Song Description
This song is about a husband that decides to leave a wife and child behind for another woman.
It tells the story of their journey, moving to a new town, marrying and having a child together. He is French, hence the song title. The title represents her anger while voicing his boredom in staying in a relationship that seems fine, but not enough for the long term.
| Song Length |
4:27 |
Genre |
Blues - Modern, Jazz - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Mad, Troubled |
Subject |
Breaking Up, Divorce |
| Similar Artists |
Al Green, Lucinda Williams |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Intercoastal highways, interwoven lives
Married on a Sunday,
baby by and by
Ordinary dreams with nothing but the road it seems
Growing pains deliver the apple of your eye
Walls in shades of yellow playing with your mind
If everything you want, and everything you need is here
Screaming Savoir Faire
Grand illusions steal the air
So you're leaving 'stead of keeping the promises you said you would
and that ain't good
Simple ergonomics never could apply
Sentimental fool,
making sentimental lies
of all the beautiful,
living in his state of mind
Screaming Savoir Faire
Grand illusions steal the air
So you're leaving 'stead of keeping
The promises you said you would
and that ain't good